LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.62 in. (60.00 cm.) (height) by 28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'LABISSE' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 'COMEDIENS ANTIQUES, 'LABISSE, 1937' (verso)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Félix Labisse, 8 - 19 January 1938.,Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Art sans frontières IV, 20 December - 11 January 1969, no. 63.,Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Félix Labisse, 27 January - 11 March 1973, no. 6.,Paris, Galerie des Grands Augustins, 1975.,Ostend, Kursaal Oostende, Retrospective 50 years of painting, 1979

Literature:

P. Waldberg, Félix Labisse, Brussels, 1971 (illustrated p. 148). ,I. Brachot, Labisse, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, 1927 - 1979, Brussels, 1979, no. 102 (illustrated p. 62)

Provenance:

The artist's studio.,Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by 1969.,Anon. sale, Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 19 June 2007, lot 10.,Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 13 December 2007, lot 40. ,Acquired at the above sale by the present owner